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I think the focus on (private) cars is wrong. Just think about cars and trucks used for deliveies, buses, trams, trains and even ferries. There is your business case.

It is far more critical to get chargers at apartments and places of work. These superchargers will have a small niche, but we need regular chargers everywhere.

Holy ratio batman

I LOVE my electric car! My problem is, I can't go on road trips. I save hundreds of dollars on gas, but I want to travel the states. The fast charging stations are few & only in big cities. I would LOVE to go on a cross country trip, but not feasible. Oil moguls still have the grip on the GOP

Why do we question each new innovation with “yea, but can it replace every single thing that preceded it yet???”

Building a gas station isn’t exactly cheap. And there’s lots of permitting for those too.

Please bro, just 100 more amps, I promise it will be the last time, just give me 100 more amps and we will fix ev charger infrastructure. Please bro.

Especially with a surplus of solar!

Great, even handed, nuanced article for anyone who bothered to actually read it.

And safe... All that flammable liquid

It’s quick & cheap if they’re already built. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Wait, what? Like, that's true of most trees, in every country!

Recent breakthroughs in Gallium nitride high voltage semiconductors will change this, eventually

Which hopefully happen not too often

How useful? Are you nuts? It makes long distance travel by EV practical. But there are still questions as to whether it is real. Putting that much charge in a battery that size, that quickly, has a lot of challenges. That it can be done, repeatedly, without destroying the battery remains to be seen.

Public transport > electric cars.

This. I have a PHEV not EV. Max charge speed is lvl 2 speeds. But if we had more chargers that wouldn’t matter. Even at that pathetically slow speed if I could be plugged in the entire grocery store trip I gain 2-4 miles. If most parking had chargers most drivers would need only 75 miles range.

smartphone fast charging in nutshell: what could go wrong?

Range not great?- about 80 miles ..also dependent on what accessories (heater, A/C ) I'm running

Takes about four hours when I'm down to 40%. I don't know the battery size.

Kinda true, but then again, isn't there huge issues with how rarely professional drivers take breaks and get over tired? Brief charging stops could align perfectly with the recommended intervals for little breaks.

This country should invest in building that out, and not as a Musk monopoly.

I'm not quite sure I follow. With CCS and NACS, the same charging port on the car supports AC charging at home and DC Fast Charging. You don't need 2 separate cars.

I think that this is very useful - charge speed is a common excuse, with 5min charging option, the excuse goes away.

Range anxiety was a real issue for early gas-powered vehicles, but this problem will be solved much more quickly: wherever there is power, one of these can be affordably installed by a private citizen's co-op. This is a fixable problem, not a legitimate problem.

Charge at levels appropriate to time of stay. Lots of low powered chargers at work and shopping car parks, far more useful. Uktra high power chargers really only needed on highways.

It’s horseshit. Battery life would be reduced to 18 months.

No its not, its billion time less then oil & gas and hydrogen and others, its probably more an upgrade then a complete change too

Didn’t Doge just scrap a bunch of charging stations at fed buildings?

not if you're renting an apartment you can't. it's at the whim of the landlord and if you have no assigned parking or carports that have no facilities for electricity it's infeasible to wire every spot up with a charger

I mean sometimes I do 🤣

It's just that I am very forgetful If my phone is out of charge(happens often) I can charge it in my car on the way to work. If my car is out of charge I won't be able to go to work

It is just another odious chore especially if the weather is bad. Most ppl don't have garages at their homes. And if you forget to do it one night your whole day is shot. The technology needs to develop

But for 90+% of your fueling, electricity can be dumped in at home. While you sleep.

Ask Shell. It's their chart. However, the source isn't the point, the efficiency is.

😂😂😂👏👏👏 🍸

Are these “experts” funded by Tesla? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Really? Here in the UK we reckon we're behind the curve on this but we have over 900 hubs with 5+ rapid chargers, with a hub every 20 or so miles on the motorway network.

Yes. He’ll read about Texas. Sometimes we can’t even keep lights on.

Jimmy Carter was voted out of office for *suggesting* we invest in Green Energy technology. Oil Syndicates are terrified of losing you slaves.